Garin Samuelsen

MA Interdisciplinary Studies of Consciousness

M.ED Elementary Education

Come groove with me to explore the mind, see what is false, and discover that you are complete and whole right now.

Let’s journey together and explore! 

What a wondrous Universe we live in. The planets spin and orbit while the sun dances, spiraling in a galaxy among innumerable galaxies. We can feel so small within the vastness of the universe. And what a marvelous planet we live on. A blue-green gem floating in the abyss of the sun’s gravity. This earth breaths such life. The seasons revolve upon their cyclical grooves while the fecundity and diversity of nature’s abundance flow in micro and macro ecosystems, flowing into one another into one broad earth system. All the wonders of life, an abundance of interconnected relationships, diversified, evolved, and threaded together in a multiplicity of interactive co-dependent species. 

How wondrous it all is. To truly see life and the Universe without labels, without measuring, is a wonder that is endless in scope.

Culture exists through the collective beliefs we all share collectively.  Culture is a dream state, or a more adept word would be Māyā. In Hindu mythology, Māyā represents a magic show, a great drama that appears real but isn’t.  Māyā is illusion. And what keeps Māyā seemingly alive and real, echoing itself as culture, is fear and the idea that there is something wrong in us and the world and that there is a personal self. This fragmented individual and collective notion of self creates all the issues and problems we see individually, collectively, and environmentally.

There, in actuality, is no right or wrong in oneself or the world. I want to make this clear. I have been trapped in seeing that culture is wrong, and we need to and should do something about it.  Yet, in this very way of thinking, I was trapped, dividing, thereby creating dualism and fragmentation.  The funny thing is that this wanting for something to change and be good or better keeps the drama maintained.

I had to see that it was fear and insecurity of the sorrow I was seeing that also kept me trapped in fear and despair.  Fear keeps us insulated from seeing Māyā for what it is: illusion. And if it is true that culture is an illusion, that means the self, born out of the conditioning of this culture, is also an illusion, a role we have been taught to play and grasp.  Until one is done with playing the game, does one enter into the journey to end all that is false, the journey within, to finally destroy Māyā.  Otherwise, we continue finding different ways to escape, avoid, or find mischievous ways to manipulate ourselves into thinking we are waking up.  

This journey, though, isn’t an easy one. This journey will be the most arduous journey you shall take.  In the journey, one will finally have to see the very self-identity that one has clung to for one’s entire life, is false.  And this journey is not one of trying to be better or even be enlightened.  It is the journey to truth and leaving behind all that isn’t.  There is no gain or loss.  There is no path.  It is in seeing directly the false that all illusions fall away. This seeing has no direction, no movement, no gaining.  It is simply seeing what is.

I am here to see you completely and listen to you in presence. Where that will take us, I have no idea.

I often bring meditation and a dialogic approach into each session. Meditation isn’t about trying to get anywhere; it is a practice of seeing what is. Dialogue has no goal but a deep dive together into exploring what is.

I would be honored to work with you.

My focus:

Existential wellness & transcendence

Relationship healing and guidance (couples and individuals)

Communication/dialogue skills

Anxiety

Depression

Wholeness and love

Seeing what is clearly

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